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Classes will resume at Clarke, other school systems Wednesday

updated Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 7:47pm

Public schools will be open as usual Wednesday after Tuesday’s bad-weather holiday. Clarke, Madison, Barrow, Elbert, Oconee, Jackson, Walton, Oglethorpe and Commerce school officials indicated schools would resume normal schedules Wednesday. Athens Christian School and Westminster Christian Academy also plan to resume classes Wednesday, according to school officials. Other schools that canceled classes Tuesday have not announced any plans to close a second straight day.

All area K-12 schools canceled classes Tuesday because of unusually cold temperatures.

The thermometer reached a low reading of 7 at about daybreak today, according to the National Weather Service’s Peachtree City station. That was the coldest temperature ever recorded on a Jan.7 in Athens, but well short of the all-time low temperature for Athens, minus 5 in 1985.

Temperatures should rise above freezing Wednesday and continue warming toward the weekend. The Peachtree City forecast called for an overnight low of 14 early Wednesday, with a high Wednesday afternoon of 42. Wednesday’s overnight low will be about 25, according to the forecast. Saturday and Sunday could see highs near 60, with a good chance of rain.